1. Operations Committee Report: Spring 2017 Plenary
Report on the Gender and Ethnic Composition of State University of New York Faculty,

2. Background
2015 – Operations Committee charged to study the diversity of SUNY faculty composition
Expanded upon 2010 Operations Committee study on faculty composition by gender
2015 research question related to structural diversity: how has the gender and ethnic composition of SUNY faculty changed in the past twenty years?
Data requested from SUNY for
2016 – Data analysis conducted
Thomas Sinclair, Ph.D., Department of Public Administration, SUNY Binghamton (and past Operations Committee Chair) and Aylone Katzin, Graduate Assistant, Department of Public Administration, SUNY Binghamton
2017 – Report presented to Operations Committee
Draft discussed, referred back to authors and revised, revisions reviewed and accepted by committee, motion to share report with UFS (special thanks to Keith Landa and Bill Robbins)
Shared with Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee
Presented to UFS body

3. Report Details 126 pages of analysis Introduction
Past studies by Operations Committee
UFS’s “Making Diversity Count” position paper
Notes about populations and faculty type
SUNY aggregated data and analysis
Sectors disaggregated data and analysis
University Centers
Comprehensive Schools
Medical Centers
Technical Schools

4. Significant Findings
Among the most significant findings of the report:
Total Black faculty in tenured and tenure-track ranks increased from 304 in to 323 in , a gain of 19 positions and a 6.2 percent increase. The percentage of Black faculty in the academic ranks rose from 3.8 to 3.9 percent in this time.
That is less than one Black faculty member per campus.
The percentage of tenured and tenure-track faculty system-wide declined from 60.3 percent in to 38.7 percent in

5. Contextualizing the SUNY Data
Structural Diversity - Racial Composition of Groups (Percentages)
Category US Population1 Full-time Faculty (US)2 NY State Population1 SUNY Tenured and Tenure-Track3 WH BL
HISP
AS/HAW
MLTRC > >1.0
NATAM >1.0 > >1.0 >1.0
Sources:
1American Fact Finder, United States Census. American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates ( ).
2U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2016). The Condition of Education 2016 (NCES ), Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty.
3State University of New York, Compiled by authors.

6. Analysis of Ethnicity Trends by Sector

7. Analysis of Gender Trends by Sector

8. Analysis of Tenure Trends by Sector